title: Mixed features of depression: why DSM-5 is wrong (and so was DSM-IV).
abstract: The DSM system has never acknowledged a central position for mixed states; thus, mixed depressions have been almost completely neglected for decades. Now, DSM-5 is proposing diagnostic criteria for depression with mixed features that will lead to more misdiagnosis and inadequate treatment of this syndrome. Different criteria, based on empirically stronger evidence than exists for the DSM-5 criteria, should be adopted.
authors.forename: Athanasios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Koukopoulos
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sani
authors.forename: S Nassir
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Ghaemi
mesh_terms: D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans